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.

It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.

We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that mankind always is. It seems as though the history of ideas is the history of being wrong. And to me, that is a kind of continuum. It's a continual path that shows we don't always know something, but we're always shifting to a path that makes us feel more comfortable in the moment, even if that shift is wrong, and a new shift is destined to happen again.

I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.