I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
...but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because soci...
The reason shadow histories remained in the shadows lay in the centralization of information: If an idea wasn't discussed on one of three major networks or on the pages of a major daily newspaper or n...
My goal is not to contradict conventional answer X by replacing it with unconventional answer Y. My goal is to think about the present in the same way we think about the past, wholly aware that such m...
But-when you really think about it-that emotional support only applies to the experience of living in public. We don't have ways to quantify ideas like amazing or successful or lovable without the fee...
I rarely remember the names or faces of nonfictional people.
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and fi...
The men and women who forged this nation [USA] were straight-up maniacs about freedom. It was just about the only thing they cared about, so they jammed it into everything. This is understandable, as...
And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played hi...
His lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.
If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?
In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainme...
The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.
The future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.
There is, certainly, an unbreachable chasm between the subjective and objective world. A reasonable person expects subjective facts to be overturned, because subjective facts are not facts; they're ju...
Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.
There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience. But there are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about...