Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?