The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my life have never been easy to love. I'm not used to normal. I'm used to disaster. I don't know, as messed up as he is, he's also sort of exciting, sort of a challenge. I'm accustomed to working for love.

If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.