And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.