Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.

Ah hon, we all have our own demons to fight, guardians or not.

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

Only I can snatch my own weave