The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.