The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time. And then you can really surprise yourself. There's that cliche, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader!"

When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.

I'm a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psycho­logical apparatus of Americans.

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.