You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

No matter what happens, it’s always now.

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.