“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought.
And then I did.”

“Every morning
I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
desperate to know whether
I’m still alive.”

“Good morning, Mr. Greenspan. I understand that you did not take my friendly advice last fall. I thought maybe you should look for other employment, but I see you have kept your job.”

“Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new.”

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

“I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said.
"I hurried.”

“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”

“I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged with the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on,
And mingled into one.
I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the West.”

“I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.”

“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.”