A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.