Here's the 3rd essay on Charlie's work, from Library of Inspiration. This one deals with Synecdoche, New York:

Not long after the writer playing me wrote those words to sum up a recurring theme of Paul Bowles, I embarked upon a journey of ideas assembled by another favorite writer of mine, Charlie Kaufman. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to be able to discuss with Kaufman (or even his understudy) how his work, like that of Bowles, consistently taps into so many of my own anxieties and fears. It is as if Kaufman's found a way to drill right into my very own John Malkovichian head.

My house was not on fire as I watched the DVD of “Synecdoche, New York,” but the lines between reality and fancy blurred on queue as I listened to the following words (that, coincidentally, transported me to the heart of Sahara desert, contemplating a Paul Bowles world view all over again):

Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman): There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. (Source)