I play this game with my son called Never Seen. We try to see new things every day, and we do. I don't take that for granted.

I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister.

I grew up going to church every Sunday and my mother was a drug and alcohol counselor, so both of my parents' lives have been about helping people at times of crisis.

I grew up going to funerals and visiting people in nursing homes. I'm not as afraid of dealing with the dying as maybe some other people may be.

The job in every re-write is to make it harder for your characters to get the thing that they need.

Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods?

I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.

I used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating.

The greatest love I believe... the greatest love I have is for my children, but I think the greatest love probably universally is a mother's love for a child.

I once heard a story, it's probably apocryphal, but I love the notion. That a car had flipped over and the baby was trapped underneath the car and the mother was thrown from the car. Then the mother lifted up the car to pull her child to safety. And I believe that my own strength comes from whom and what I love.