Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.
The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.
[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation.
I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do it when I’ve not got anything better to do – and even then I often do nothing instead.
Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.
I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it seems to me a great film. But whatever pigeon-hole you put Stalker into you would both be increasing the risk of disappointing people and diminishing the film.
I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.
Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.