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.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend

A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.