does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

I like Bret Easton Ellis' sense of humor. I feel like mine is sometimes similar to his. And how his characters sometimes seem really confused in a humorous manner. I like that. And I have that sometimes in my characters.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things. I don't think having an internet presence helps financially.

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."