The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people that will have you think that there are two kinds of people in this world, and there are the 'good; people. There is no good, there is no evil, there is just a war going on between the people that want you to think there's a war going on and the people that know there doesn't have to be one.

'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.