I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

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