I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.