If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

In these silences something may rise

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.