In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

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

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

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.