For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.