The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.