There are pigs all over the state of California. I can see why they wouldn't want any more pigs.

I think you have to know what difference you're going to make when you go somewhere, and then you've got to work to make that difference. If you can't do it in two terms, obviously it wasn't there for you.

Absolutely, I would give it all my energy.

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was growing up, there were no role models that were blokey that were men. Everybody was flamboyant and camp, and I remember going, 'That's not me, so even though I think I am gay, I don't think I fit into this world.'

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.