Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.