They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

If you always do "just enough" you'll never have more than enough.

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

Facts do not lie within biased opinions.

It was time to free him from my burdens.

Trust is such an important principle for me. I want to believe in the best of each person, and some time back, I have experienced that trust being broken - which shook me to the core.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.