When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .