I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.