I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.