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

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

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

Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the world like Polaroids, and then they move on. And I'm stuck in this intense relationship to the Polaroid.

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.