When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.