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Why'd you come to me?"
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"I care less about letting you down.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

But the muse won't always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she'd rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

And someday soon, I'll rest in peace. But till that day does come, I'll rest in pieces.

Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose.

Back (thank god for office accessorizing, the last playground of the reluctant adult).

If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.

Oh, people will come, Ray," Phillip intones, doing his best James Earl Jones. "People will most definitely come.

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it's for the last time?

And if you want to know where all the good guys are, we're standing right in front of you, lacking the balls to actually make ourselves heard.

Childhood feels so permanent,

Driving a Porsche is like fucking a model," he says, and he would know. "It will never feel as good as it looks.

You OK?" she says, raising her eyebrows. "You're teetering."
He nods and steadies himself against the wall. "Aren't we all," he says.

But the truth is always a lot fuzzier, hiding in soft focus on the periphery.

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

Anger you have locked up in you, and that's healthy. I just think you could be a little more judicious

If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge.

Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation,

I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.

I haven't seen her in a while, haven't returned her calls or stopped thinking about her.

I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad.

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

Bllod will separate, if need be, but its call is primordial, and it won't be refused.

Then I'm telling it wrong." "Bad?" "Yes. Divorce shouldn't be friendly. It just makes everything that much more confusing,

I want someone who will love me and touch me and understand me and let me take care of them, but beyond that, I don't know.

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

Everybody dies alone. That's a fact. Some more alone than others.

It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.

In real life, you don't get to choose what you forget.

He'd continue to cry passionately, long after he'd forgotten why he was crying to begin with.

I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

The cobbler's children go barefoot,

You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

This is probably as good a time as any to mention that I was holding a large birthday cake.

I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there.

You get married to get an ally against your family.

At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent.

I may not be old but I'm too old to have this much nothing

One day you just wake up and discover that you got old while you were sleeping.

There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go.

A problem is something to solve," Phillip says. "If there's no solution, it's not a problem, so stop treating it like one.

You could fill an airlift to Africa with all the food generated by one dead Jew.

The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don't even get to mourn.

The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it's too late to apply to yourself.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

It's hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it's hard to believe that it didn't give up years ago.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko.

We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

It's rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point.

You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone.

We get married to have an ally against our family.

It was one of those playful arguments that we would carry with us unresolved into old age.

The future just isn't what it used to be

Relationships don't come with a warranty and being in love is no guarantee of a happy ending.

Don't you ever worry about the future?" I asked. Jack shrugged. "This is the future," he said.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

If I were an athlete I'd be past my prime. If I were a dog I'd be dead. Thirty ... shit.

If you're eating an ice cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.

When did being right become worthless, and being at fault irrelevant?

And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on display.

[T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there.

She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.

At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues.

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

I'll never fully understand the agenda of angry breast-feeders.

Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already.

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

You still go to therapy?"
"Nah. I gave up years ago."
"Mental health isn't for everyone.

You never have to change a book for budget.

It's a sad moment when you come to understand how truly replaceable you are.

Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

If we sound like a couple of callous assholes, it's because that's how we were raised.

In my family, we don't so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.

if there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here mattered.

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

As soon as he saw her face, he knew what it would look like when she ended it.

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

If so, how do we feel about it?" "We are numb.

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

You have to question the originality of your life when it can be captured perfectly in the lyrics of a rock song.

A lot can go wrong in twelve hours.

Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card.
P.15

He was right here and nowhere to be found.

I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be.

The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better.

one of the lounge chairs. Serena

Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of viscous white pus
chap 22.

Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost