People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.