Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.