What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of storytelling. And I have narrowly defined storytelling.

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.