Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.

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

When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

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.

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.

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

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.