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

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

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

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

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.

I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.

I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.