You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.