I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is.

Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.

It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.

The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.