There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous existence. For example, infants who die from SIDs were actually great people when they were alive for real, so they get to go to heaven after a mere five weeks in purgatory. Meanwhile anyone Willard Scott ever congratulated for turning one hundred two was obviously a terrible individual who had many many previous sins to pay for and had to spend a century in his or her own unknown purgatory even though the person seemed perfectly wholesome in this particular world.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed