'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

You're a writer. Make it up.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.