All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't want a middle class - because middle class creates a certain happiness. You know what I mean?

When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds of risky behavior you stop once you feel death's cruel breath on your neck. I think that as a straight white man in particular, I was tempted to believe that I was immortal and eternal because, after all, in this culture, straight white dudes are the heroes of every story that you see or read about with very rare exception. So how could the story go on without the hero, you know?

I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.