Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or pa….
Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things..
"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the….
I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave o….
In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics. Three times two and ….
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothi….
When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage go….
When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas..
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant..
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images..
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs..
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room.….
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Pe….
In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that, in a funny way, when people are cooped up….
Every man is the author of his own life..
How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?.
The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface..
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was read….
That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can d….
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engag….
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been..