As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

The bomb lives only as it is falling.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.