I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.