There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

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.

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

I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.

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.

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.