I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.

Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.