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" Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. "

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" I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore. "

" Obviously, I love Japanese food. My favorite TV show of all time, without exception, is 'Iron Chef.' Not the stupid American version; 'Iron Chef' Japanese; the real one, the one that was on in Japan... my DVR for years was set to record almost every single 'Iron Chef' episode. "

" When your buddy tells you a movie is good, that's worth 2,000 commercials. "

" You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity. "

" I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people. "

" Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. "

" I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other. "

" I've never really had a media edifice supporting me. "

" The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me. "

" Women always want the guy that other women want. "

" At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now. "

" I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures. "

" When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled. "

" Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable. "

" I don't even pursue girls anymore. I mean, I could obviously still pursue girls. It's not like I can't. But I don't have to pursue girls anymore. Girls come to me. "

" It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way. "

" Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future. "

" I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers. "

" There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine. "

" If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma. "

" Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it. "

" I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women? "

" Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse. "

" The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't. "

" Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party. "

" I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy. "

" I'm a decent-looking guy, but I've never walked into a room and got a girl because of how I looked. Look, I'm never excluded because of my looks. I just don't stand out. "

" There is always more demand for great content then there will be great content to satisfy it. "

" My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro. "

" I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there. "