“You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.”

“A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.”

“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”

“You told me I was the best sex you'd ever had in your life… You couldn't get enough… At one point you were so loud I thought sure hotel security was going to beat down the door.”

“When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.”

“You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.”

“It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.”

“I tell them that a simple story is the best story, and that time and place is really crucial to good storytelling. Establish your stories in a specific time and place and get your characters set solidly within that framework before you let them start moving from one room to the next...”

“You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.”
“It didn’t come up.”
“How disappointing for you.”
Ha-ha. “That’s not what I meant.”

“Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.”