Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.