We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

We all survive more than we think we can.

Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.

I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.