For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.