The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.