Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

Life is serious but art is fun!