I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.

I'm a good judge of my own work.