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Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
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I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
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It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
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advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.
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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
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I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.
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Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction
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Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
