I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written by local writers, it just takes a little bit of openness to open your pages up to a wider freelance writer pool, and then you might find new voices and a wider array of voices, and definitely more original content that can't be found anywhere else.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?