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

When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.

We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.