Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

The words I overuse are all adverbs.