Everyone's got a different story.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.