It has to be very tight to seem loose.
The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.
Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.