More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?