I am gripped by an existential panic.

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body

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.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.