I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

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.

Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.

I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, "You're being idiots, this happens every other year."

I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.

Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.

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.