“I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late ...” — Jess Walter Quote

“I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.'”

“There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.”

“I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.”

“At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.”

“I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.”

“If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together.”