“I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.”

“When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.”