Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.

New York exists for me. Not me for it.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.