I Suppose I Shouldn't Go Around Admitting

The Most Important Possible Thing You Can Do Is Do A Lot Of Work.

Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners - And I Really Wish Somebody Had Told This To Me - That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work... Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste.

We're Jews, My Family, And Jews Break Down Into Two Distinct Subcultures: Book Jews And Money Jews. We Were Money Jews.

I Don't Like That Whole "art Should Challenge You" Thing. Because I Don't Feel Like Art Actually Does Challenge You. I Was A Semiotics Major At Brown, And There's This Idea That Stories Are Better, Books Are Better, And Movies Are Better If They Cocked You Off Your Axis And You Were Completely Disoriented And You'd Really Have To Rethink Everything.

Great Stories Happen To Those Who Can Tell Them.