There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft, but there's very few.

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.

When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the sins, but it will at least record them. The sinners would be known, and the victims' stories would be known.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.