Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.