Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a "hot day." Or a "pretty girl."

I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.

Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

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

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.