(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her.-Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

Whenever I'm sad, I just put on 'SpongeBob' and I cheer up.

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.