We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.