How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?โ โI donโt know. How many?โ โEight.โ โWhy?โ โOh, stop overanalyzing it.
Dennis LehaneYour first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.
Dennis LehaneI love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.
Dennis LehaneThe best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
Dennis LehaneI was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
Dennis LehaneIf you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane personโs actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. Itโs a no-win situation. Itโs a death penalty really.
Dennis Lehane