I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?