All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?

When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.