Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.