Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things.

Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.