You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.