One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.