I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.