Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.