I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.