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'm just not a natural teacher.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

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.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.