I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.

Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.

Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.