I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.