I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.

To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing about someone who has passed away, when they can't tell the other side of the story.

If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.