I’m seen as somebody who writes for adults because I’m an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don’t.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
A person who doesn’t learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
I’m one of those people who doesn’t really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they’re more entrenched than music.
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.
If you’ve ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you’ll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.
I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.
A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures...
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.
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.
Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.