"Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur."

"More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself."

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?"

"You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel."

"Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child."

"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."

"I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding."

"And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father."