I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.