Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

I look forward and see myself look back.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.