That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

You exist in the minds of other people.

People are really stuck on their ideas about themselves.

I don't know if any of the people perceive themselves as having been made fun of.

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

Sometimes, I'll read a news story and there will be one line about something else, and I'll find it interesting and look into it. That can often turn into an entire story on its own.

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl.