Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and their spirits are crushed, because they work on these screenplays and these projects, and then directors either take them and change everything, rewrite them and make them worse, or they film them and they're nothing like how they imagined it to be.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

I think politics has an influence on my work now, perhaps more so than when I was a childless young man, but I hope never to deal with these kinds of issues in anything more than a covert manner. I'm more interested in figuring out what I think than in pronouncing my views to the world.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.