I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.

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.

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.