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.

Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.