The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

His computer password is "password.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

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.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.