As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

The book says [Lincoln in the Bardo],"I really need this sci-fi device of a ghost inhabiting another person." You say okay kind of begrudgingly. So the structure seemed informed by need and efficiency.

Err in the direction of kindness.

I watched a bunch of kids movies on Christmas. I was kind of joking with our family by asking, "Is anyone allowed to die in a kid's movie anymore?"

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.