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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'

What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and keep some facts to themselves. They just don't give you the full picture, and that's very worrisome to me.

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.