The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming..

Love changes us, but we change how we love too..

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you….

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't..

Power wears out those who don't have it.

You can't see the picture when you're in the frame..

Mexicans are quasi-legal..

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium..

I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do w….

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great..

All history is the history of thought..

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy..

You and I are more than you and I because it's we..

No one ever indoctrinated me..

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS..

My health is very much improved..

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life..

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself..

Movies are about escape..

This is how it is now. This is my life..

I will not stagger from expedient to expedient..