I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.

Jace likes to pretend that everyone isn’t talking about him, even when he knows they are.

I'm really open to everything.

being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

Reality, while generally probable, is not always interesting.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.