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

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

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.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.