I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

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

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.