My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.

Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.