Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.

I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.

My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me as, I could play bawdy, I could play rough around the edges. And so they think, 'Oh, she'll do this. It'll be so funny.' And I'm like, 'I'm not doing that.'

I made my dream come true despite all the obstacles - no money, no training, no skis, no snow.

How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.