I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

The ideas choose me, not the other way around.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.