I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.

I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one.........the re are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, "ohhhhh." And the lightbulb goes on.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.