I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.