When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.