"In a roundabout way, Boba Fett created Pearl Jam."

"When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?"

"You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview."

"In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one person - the 'journey of a particular 'hero, in the lingo of the mythologist Joseph Campbell - as a prism for understanding everything else."