How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.