Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.

People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival