A year ago. My understanding of what love is has changed immensely since.

In one month, two of my old prejudices were reversed. Two things that I was prejudiced against.

I am so obdurate I do not change my mind.

When I was younger, I thought that was all you needed. If you understand physics, how hard can it be to run a team? The idea that some skills, like managing people, are not correlated with scientific IQ — in fact some of them are negatively correlated to scientific IQ — took me a while to figure out.

I just lack the basic fact-finding instinct.

Then I think to myself, Well, start. Start. Start.

It brings the freedom of having seen a lot of things and survived them.

I’m just practical. Life comes first for me; art second. Sometimes art comes even later than second.

These mandarin-precious-princess-and-the-pea notions about a writer’s “special place” just didn’t match my life.

Well, I make the magic wherever I can. I don’t know if that’s conscious or accidental.