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.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.