Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

There will always be an underground.

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.