Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Owe no man anything.

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.

Im running in a race and people are on the other track, I'm running with myself

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.