Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.