When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.

My people are mostly underweight or overweight - however it is they turned out, like good bread. Bring back the hunched-over people... Bring back humanity.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.