I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.