I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.