A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

Everyone feels like they would love to be a really cool bartender in a really cool bar, but you're still surrounded by people who want to destroy themselves with alcohol. When you look at it that way, it's not that much fun.

The fact is I'm very self-similar.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.