Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.

What's my favorite part that I've written? That’s like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly!

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

There's nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that. It beats drugs, drink, and almost anything else I know.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and to have faith.