I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

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.

It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it?

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.