Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.