The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.
But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.
I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].
Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.
Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.
I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.
