“These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.”

“Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.”