An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

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.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.