The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.