Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

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

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.

These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.

Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore.

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.