I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

I'm excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it.

Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to get done.

The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.