They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.