Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.