Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy, but that's always gonna be the case. I suppose if climate change happens much faster than even the dire experts predict, then I suppose opinions will change.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.