Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

Promiscuity is the death of love.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.