People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
The gods sustain and guide all their works.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.