A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.