I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I don't think good films have messages.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

This is how I disappear in pieces.This is how I leave while not moving from my seat.This is how I dance away.This is how I'm gone before you wake.

There is a charm in saying nothing, in saying nothing at all. There is a charm in - experiencing.

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

He went through a non-existant gap.

Fight night is all about believing in yourself, believing in what you can do, and doing it.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.