That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within

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

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.