Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.