You learn to move on without the people you love.

I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. As someone who's just writing scripts, you just kind of have to shrug. I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. It is what it is.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.