I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

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

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

Everyone's in their own personal coma.