“To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.”

“The way to get a babe to act in a blue movie is you offer her a million dollars. The way to get a dude is you just have to ask him.”

“It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”

“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in order to repeat the past.”

“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble”

“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”