All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

I learn things late-and only the hard way.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

To discover the source of this alchemical love within is to uncover the deepest secrets of the soul. It is to unearth and align with the ultimate truth of who we are.

A smile is a light within you being turned on, it can illuminate the path for you and others.

Until you have answered the question “Who am I” you will not be capable of living your own life

Respect emotion!!!It is always valid.Don't just HEAR but LISTEN not with your demon

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves instead of letting them alter us.

Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.