experience Quotes

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.