I Think We're All Mysteries To Ourselves.

It's Hard To Tell Whether The Ship Or Airplane - They're All The Same, I'm Convinced - Is Male Or Female; It May Shift Back And Forth.

I Generally Play Strong People And Scary People.

I Began To Write Fiction On The Assumption That The True Enemies Of The Novel Were Plot, Character, Setting And Theme, And Having Once Abandoned These Familiar Ways Of Thinking About Fiction, Totality Of Vision Or Structure Was Really All That Remained.

The Writer Should Always Serve As His Own Angleworm —and The Sharper The Barb With Which He Fishes Himself Out Of Blackness, The Better.

I've Never Had Any Delusions About Being A Leading Man, And It's Not Sour Grapes To Say That In The Best Films That I've Always Enjoyed, The Cliched Leading Man Type Isn't A Part Of The Picture.