I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.