There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.

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

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.

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

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.

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

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.