I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.

I was a precocious reader.

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

I write in American slang.