This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

Believe in me and die forever.

We all have some proper noun to blame.

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.