"I have never thought of writing as a career. Not even from the beginning. And not anywhere along. It just happens at certain times."
"These haggard pilots from whom I descend: all they wanted was a little nap / while the sky was straight."
“No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.”
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
"Everything Hollywood writes is about violence, but not so much about suffering."
"Collaborators are bound by openness, listening, and love. These qualities have obvious ethical importance."
"I get to bring it to an immediate, absolute, diamond-sharp focus. 'The guillotine is about to fall: What will you do?' "
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
