Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.