So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

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

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.

Even the worst job has its benefits and so does being a professional literary agent, and - I know I said this at the time but I still believe it - the worst job is the one that you know is wrong for you, but you still do it. You're afraid to quit.

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

If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.