And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.