Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

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

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that's true that I don't want to be.

A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind of stupid logic is that? It'd be like if you saw Michael Jordan at a restaurant and were like, "Why aren't you in your basketball uniform?" I leave out way more than I put in.