I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?