When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.

My favorite season is autumn, and Maine is lovely for that reason. In Maine, autumn begins on July 29. That's when you start building a fire in the fireplace and the leaves literally start falling from the trees. It is a cold and rugged and a beautiful place that reminds you with its many death traps - its painfully cold oceans, its sharp, jagged beaches, and perilous cliffsides - that nature doesn't care whether you live or die.

Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me."

I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.