A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Words at night were feral things.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

One writes to find words' meanings.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Time is the herald of truth.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

Do no depend on others' ideas or concepts because inside yourself is the Wisdom. For the Few.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.