Why do we create and watch horrible stories? What is our responsibility to the terrible truth of the human condition and to the quest to bring more beauty and peace into the world?

There’s a Young Genius inside you, inside of all of us.

Mine? She combined fearless moxie and bookish devotion in a way that I still admire.

At one time or another, every creative person asks: but what if someone has already said all this before?

My response: so what if they have?