Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."

Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.