I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Nobody does anything for one reason.