Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.