When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien ….

I actually do like traveling..

I am definitely a worrier..

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true..

You can't really be too calculated about everything in life..

Everything we see, everything that exists, is part of God..

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's par….

Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors....

I'm not reclusive. I'm out and about..

Do not destroy what you cannot create..

I'm looking for a market for wisdom..

I go and see music all the time..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

It's OK to wear the same thing every day..

I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do..

I'd love to work with Disney again..

Stories don’t always have happy endings..

Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet..

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before..

I've always been reasonably fatalistic..

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point..