If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.