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

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

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

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.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.