If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end