Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you.

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

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

Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.