We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
I never talk about my next project.
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.
I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.
The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.
I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
I'm kind of psychotic and I like to talk about things. I'm a Virgo, too, so I like to analyze and overprocess.
Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.
I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.
I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.
Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.
But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
I get really puffy eyes, so I'm all about a good puffy-eye mask.
