“There's someone scary behind me, isn't there?”
“Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.”
“Scary, isn't it? But what wonderful thing didn't start out scary?”
“There's nothing as scary as the future.”
“Can you believe it? They made me an ensign.""I didn't realize that things were going so bad.""Scary, isn't it?”
“If there was no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.”