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.

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.