You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.