If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour – calm, quiet and introspective – did something to soothe my shattered self.
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by.
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it’s a very limited one. And by and large, it isn’t helpful.
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say “Oh, I don’t read much fiction,” as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn’t an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.