I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

I was always fascinated with the way that things pop on the Internet - the ways you build communities and create little stories and ideas that people play around with and send back to you.

Reality, while generally probable, is not always interesting.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.