This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

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.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.