I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.