I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.