Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in my head. It takes a lot of work, writing, writing, and rewriting to get the music exactly the way you want it to be.

Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.