What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.

Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to talk to network people. I don't want to do any of that.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.