I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.