Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.