But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.