It's one of my favorite times of day. I'll have an array of notes, things that I want to think about. Something will start to take shape, and I'll play around with it. It's not usually an intense time. It's sort of a playful time. But it's when some really good thoughts arise.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.