Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

You're a writer. Make it up.

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

She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

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

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.