"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."

"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."

"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."

"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot."

""If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for ""dangerous"" climate change.""

"If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?"

"I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book."

"You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything."