If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

Why don't I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don't like people, and that crowds are just collections of people. That seems like a very nihilistic way to look at the world.

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

The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.

It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

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

The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.