Once you've proved to [the players] that you can help them become better players, you've earned their respect. They respect if you've achieved at a h….

You can only go to places that you will let yourself go..

To see what they see, sit where they sit..

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound..

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money..

To search for the old is to understand the new..

I live a pretty anonymous life..

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards..

I've always been reasonably fatalistic..

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line..

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off..

I'm the best Manning..

"You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for..

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei.

In order to expose a system though, you need whistleblowers..

We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field..

I like things bright..

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside..

I'm so into momminess..

There are some things that cannot be expressed through words. And that is why we dance..

To kill or not to kill, that was the question that haunted me..