At bottom, I'm a cheerful person.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you know that's in there.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.