Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.

When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many facts you will have to tackle with your imagination. It wasn't in the shape of a person, but right away I knew it was like a person in every way except for how it looked. As it turns out, our looks are not the main thing that makes us human.

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.