I never asked anybody to take me seriously.

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

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

I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.

I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.

I would never tell anybody to get a divorce.

I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.