It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.

If the money's right, I'll do a film.

The days of print media are numbered. Some papers will be around for a few years, but everyone knows news is going online. Then you have to ask, who pays for it? How do you deliver it? Is there any money for proper investigative reporting?

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.