To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.