I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.
I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.
If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.
There is nothing more boring than people who love you.
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.