I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it go away. I thought, So this must be living, this must be the beginning of the time people later refer to as 'years ago, when I was young'.

Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it.

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

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.

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.