I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.