To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

This was the most gratifying Haskell I've won. With those other two it was like bringing an Uzi to a picnic.

For me personally, there's nothing more gratifying than bringing that cannon home.

Personally, it felt good, but this is a team. It's a team game and to do your job is gratifying, to do things to help your team win is gratifying and I was able to do that tonight.

Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.