I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

Everything is a version of something else.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.