I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.
If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.
The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.
There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'