I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.