I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.