I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.