It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It's fun to give pleasure to people.