You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

We are all children until our fathers die.

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

When you're coming out, you have to deal with the whole world saying 'Oh! You're an abominable snowman'.

There is no grief like heartbreak.

Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

Great engineers are a huge multiplier.