If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.