The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.

I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.

Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.