After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.