I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.

Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.