This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

I've never flown a kite.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

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

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