When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

Surviving means being born over and over.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.