If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

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

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.