There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

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.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.