Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.

Movies are too literal.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.