As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.