I write, like anybody else, about how it is to be human." -- Mark Merlis

You get out of hell one step at a time." -- Abbie Sullivan, "Cinderella Shoots the Moon.

Spend lavishly on creams. Wash your hair with henna at the first sign of gray. Never spend one minute thinking about what you do not have. And most importantly, indulge in everything but love.

A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.

In a way I haven't quite stopped mourning the end of my childhood.

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

The stairway is not a thing of gleaming strands a radiant evanescence for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not touch the stone.

Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.

It's funny to see the people connect with Fast & Furious the way they do. I had no clue, I didn't get it. And now, more I get it and I see it.