Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.

As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.