You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.