My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him.

High school is worse than having to swim through multiple prahana filled lakes- and that's before the truckload of homework.

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.