I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the time a couple asked for a recommendation, and I recommended Raising Arizona and they absolutely hated it. They came back hungry for blood. I was on my lunch break and my boss came out and said, "Hey kid, you need to come talk to these people. They totally hate Arizona." And he said, "Arizona's a dog; nobody gets that movie."

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.