I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

In the present political situation, it's an interesting phenomenon to look at: what is the appeal of an autocratic leader? Why do people want somebody who yells at them? For most of us, that's so hard to understand. Who wants that? I think there are a lot of people for whom that fulfills some kind of need.

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.

I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.