My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.

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.

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.