We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

You were scared they were going to laugh at you, right? So let them! People who discourage others will never find their own happiness!

We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

It was a big relief off my shoulder.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?