"If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English."

“'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.”

“Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.”

“I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.”

“As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.”

“Have consideration for wounded feelings.”

“Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.”

“Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.”

“Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.”