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

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

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 like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in the Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness"? I've come to think that it has no meaning at all. You cannot pursue happiness. And to think that this bad little sentence has determined our lives.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.