Do I think that American democracy ends if Trump is president? No! I think, there are plenty of checks and balances in place. I think he would do some damage to the country but we would recover. The office of the presidency and American democratic institutions are a lot stronger than one person. So if he wins, our job is just to keep the office strong, right? And hope he'll be replaced by something better!

When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.