I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

The problem's name is God.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.