There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

I believe in free will.

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

A wild appreciation of men and women . . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

I don't think that I can be settled and I don't think that I would ever want to be.