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" Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. "

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" People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. "

" I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. "

" I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. "

" Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. "

" To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. "

" The house is a factory. "

" But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia. "

" You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. "

" I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. "

" But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. "

" Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. "

" They took my mother's stomach out six months ago. "

" Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. "

" It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. "

" But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. "

" I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked. "

" I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. "

" So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. "

" The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. "

" I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. "

" McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object. "

" It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. "

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" When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen. "

" To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. "

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" I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. "