There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.