The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

For those of us that wake up every day and go to our jobs, we know our worth because we know the value we add to the world.

My faith is everything.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.