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" My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life. "

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" The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly. "

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" Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. "

" Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. "

" My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house. "

" New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108. "

" Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. "

" The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top. "

" Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.' "

" The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity. "

" TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix. "

" If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur. "

" I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant. "

" Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. "

" Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness. "

" Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth. "

" People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't. "

" Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. "

" Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. "

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" I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient. "