If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.

A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind of stupid logic is that? It'd be like if you saw Michael Jordan at a restaurant and were like, "Why aren't you in your basketball uniform?" I leave out way more than I put in.

You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.

To get hwat you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don't be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it -- and you'll eventually get it.

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?