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

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

Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.

And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.

For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.