We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.

Even murderers, I suppose, experience the loss of car keys the way the rest of us do. I mean, how can they not? Once you make this person scramble around the house looking for her car keys and finally find them, get in the car, and run into traffic, we can identify with her enough that when she stops the car and pulls the gun out of her purse and heads in to kill somebody, we'll be with her as much as is possible.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.

I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.

I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.