I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.

A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.

Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.

Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.