I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.