It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.