A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.

I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.

People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.