Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

I believe in free will.