You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

Give yourself time to get better.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.