I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.