He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.