Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

I'm a person with virtually no feelings.

It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.

Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold.

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.