Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness..

Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Bau….

To me, there was an interesting movie to be made about two people who had been on that whirlwind romance and what happens after the fairy tale weddin….

I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they l….

Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy t….

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside con….

You want to invite new ideas, not new rules..

My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea tha….

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity..

God, I love John Cassavetes..

I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and ….

A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about maki….

When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be truste….

One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement - I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by H….

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.….

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely..

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind..

The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of t….

Things can change in a day..

You wan't to invent new ideas, not new rules..

I hate this idea that we, as Americans, are going to say we're going to have a sense at the border, someplace else, that - to figure out whether or n….