I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

You can't live and write at the same time.