It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.
I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.
