Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.
In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
Fear is. . . a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.
Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.
Give your hands to Him for His work, your feet to walk His path, and your ears to hear Him speak.