If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.

All we have is the story we tell.

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.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.