People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.