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

About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.

I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.

I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more.

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.