Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.

It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.

If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.