The best revenge is living well without you.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.