I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

The past is the prism through which we see a great, great, great deal of ourselves; it's a useful prism. It doesn't mean that we're fascinated by the dead or that we're fascinated by things that are settled. It is just one place where we can go to understand ourselves in the present.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.