I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them..

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college..

Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for debate, and, mostly, I fail. Bu….

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused..

I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm….

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would write non….

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place..

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape..

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that..

How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like tryi….

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly..

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone..

I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in….

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood..

I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. W….

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language..

Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge t….

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write..

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off..

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself..

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment..