A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be alone with our thoughts. If you want to, you have to arrange it now. You have to go off where there's no WiFi and leave your equipment behind, but still have some sort of GPS tracking to make sure you don't get lost or die.

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

The world is always ending, for someone.

If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.