For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

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

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.