The first piece of art that I ever bought - when I could afford it - was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.