If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

Gotta love alcohol and sex hormones.

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.

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.