I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.