It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

I never learned to read music.

I write in American slang.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.