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.

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.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another.