People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.