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

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.

Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

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

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

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