Procrastination Is Something You Do Yourself. You

I Knew That I Shouldn’t Have, But I Did It All The Same; And There You Have My Epitaph, Or One Of Them, Because My Grave Is Going To Require A Monument Inscribed On All Four Sides With Rueful Mottoes, In Small Characters, Set Close Together.

For Me, The Goal Is Always To Write A Novel That I Myself Would Like To Read. People Frequently Ask Me What My Favorite Book Is, And In Effect, There's Always A Capital-f Favorite, Capital-b Book That I Would Like To Write Myself Someday. I Try To Go For That Ideal Of Writing The Best, Most Entertaining, Most Beautifully Written Book That I Possibly Can.

There's Something Inherently More Appealing About The Idea That You Could Reveal And Tell Stories About Characters Over The Course Of A Tv Season - 13 Or 26 Episodes, Whatever It Might Be - Than In The Course Of One Two-hour Movie. You Can Do So Many More Novelistic Kinds Of Things On A Tv Show - With Time, With Gradual Development Of Relationships, And So On - Than You Could Possibly Do In A Movie. And That Is Very Appealing.

Man Makes Plans . . . And God Laughs.

The World Like Our Heads Was Meant To Be Escaped From, They Are Prisons World And Head Alike.