It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

Everything has to be intrinsic plot-wise in the same way, to use the Linda Williams analogy but to move it on a bit, as musicals - in old musicals, like in an old Cole Porter musical, you get the action, then they do a song, which reflects a moment - everything stops while that is being sung - and then you restart. These days in most musicals, the plot keeps moving through the song. I think it would be nice if someone constructed some pornography where the sex continues to propel you through the story.

What do stars do? They shine.

What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?” “Because I'm a damsel in distress,” she said. “And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car.

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.