If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.