I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.
The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

