Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

I am ready to be alone.

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.

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.