Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.