Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.