You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.