To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.

Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.