People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?