I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

I love writing family stories.

It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.

I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?

I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.