Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.