Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in terms of belief; and they make art. Four of them are about conformity, and in these, everything would go more smoothly if people just would shut up and do what they're told. But in art it doesn't work that way.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

People with good intentions never give up!