"Writing novels is the most exciting"

“As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way . . . It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Let men do their duty and the women will be such wonders; the female lives from the light of the male: see a male's female dependants, you know the man.”

“I see sad crushed plastic everywhere and put some thoughts composed of words that do not belong together together and feel a little digital hope.”

Source : Matthew Zapruder (2013). “Come on All You Ghosts”, p.15, Copper Canyon Press

“Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.”

“I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance”

“I was never meant to sit at home.”

“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.”

“In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.”

Source : Joseph Story (1873). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.370, Boston : Little, Brown