That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.

What's your favorite book? "The last one I read.

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.