I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested in books about Arcti…

- Simon Rich

I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I …

- Simon Rich

I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That’s why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - beca…

- Simon Rich

"It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women.…

- Simon Rich

I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But I didn’t share their h…

- Simon Rich

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah check…

- Simon Rich

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

- Simon Rich

By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because I wanted to read them…

- Simon Rich

There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.

- Simon Rich