People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.