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

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

Adjectives are the curse of America.

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.