Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.

I've discovered that like every writer, I'm helpless MYSELF - and that means I find myself unconsciously or semi-consciously repeating motifs and themes and even using certain words or images recurrently in my work, no matter how much I think I'm starting fresh. But I've always admired artists who made a specific sport of trying to visit different kinds of genres or mediums or modes - not just 'western' or 'detective', but comedy/tragedy, epic and miniature, traditional/experimental.

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.