I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.