I navigated the world as a hedge maze of constant fear and worry in which I might take the wrong turn and jeopardize the love of everyone around me and everyone on Earth. That's what I needed in order to survive.

By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.