Max Apple

The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.

I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.