If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.

I wish I knew how to quit you.