I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.

I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them.

Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I don't really collect anything. I mean, if I see a piece of Moxie soda memorabilia, I'll probably buy it. I'm a sucker for regional soda brands and forgotten histories and that sort of thing.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.