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Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever?

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

I needed something
the distraction of another life
to alleviate fear.

It was always the A booth. It was always the front seat of the roller coaster. It was never Let's not get the bottle of Cristal.

Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing, I tell her.

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood, but I'm smiling.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

Suddenly I'm seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

The Grinch says leave!

It's a world where getting stoned is the only option.

General competence is on the fucking decline.

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

I had to put this slim volume back into my bookshelf and drink a J&B on the rocks, followed by two Xanax, to recover from the effort.

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you.

Price. You're priceless.

Is that your real name?
Does it really matter?
It makes me wonder what else is not real.

I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.

After a while you learn that everything stops.

You should never mistake affection for ... passion," I warn her. "It can be ... not good. It can ... get you into, well, trouble.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike ... and I think a lot of people are alike too.

Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Lover? se asks, her voice reminding me of someone human.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do enough things to keep a datebook.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.

From those of us who are left behind: you will be remembered, you were the one I needed, I loved you in my dreams.

But ... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

God, the name Susan is so ugly. It reminds me of the word sinus.

How is your father?" she asks disinterestedly.
"A contrivance," I mutter. "A plot device.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

The things I could do to you with a coat hanger.

No I'm not," I whisper to myself. "I'm a fucking evil psychopath.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

The polite conversation that carried over from cocktails into dinner was so stifling that it carried a certain ruthlessness,

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I'm tortured by.

You seem happy.
I'm almost afraid of how happy I am.

You can't get dyslexia from pussy.

did another line and believed him because it is easier to move through the motions than not to.

My mind reeling with the concept that a human being, a man, could feel pride over sodomizing another man,

Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

I guess the consolation is that she's not going to be beautiful forever," he says. "But I'd like to be with her before that happens.

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

There was something beneath the surface of things.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

I don't know why I write what I write.

All of my books come from pain.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

You learn to move on without the people you love.

Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?

Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

You can disappear here without knowing it.

You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor.

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

People are afraid to merge.

I'm having a difficult time containing my disordered self.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn't matter.

What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately.

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

The Smiths are singing and someone says Turn that gay angst music off.

My pain is constant and sharp ... this confession has meant nothing

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

I have to return some videos,

She's simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks - her currency in this world - and it will not be fun to watch her grow old.

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength.

What keeps me interested
and it always does
is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

I have no patience for revelations, for new beginnings, for events that take place beyond the realm of my immediate vision.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

I have to return some videotapes