There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.
I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.
I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.
The reflexive allergy to L. A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.
I don't see any coronation coming my way
The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.
Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.