When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

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.

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

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

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

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.