“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”

“That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.”

“It is always consoling to think of suicide; it's what gets one through many a bad night.”