My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.