You have to be somewhat ruthless with your work. You have to let things go. Even your favourite little part might not work in the end.
That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.
I enjoyed 12-plus years in TNA, but in the end, I didn't like being there doing what I was doing. That was my issue. I needed to get away.
I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.