I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.

My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.

Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.

Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.

Tonight Must Last Us Forever

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.

I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.

And, as Stevie Rae would have said, Kalona was as wrong as manboobs.