I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Don't ever let anyone or anything stop you from pushing forward with your past behind you. The land of success and happiness is big enough for everybody to reside in.

The most animated talks we have are about…things

Break break break On thy cold gray stones O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.