We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.