You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.

I take this continent with me into the grave.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.