I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

We are so vocal about what we hate.

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.