For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

