Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.