We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

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