For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.

Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.