I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

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

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

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

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 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.

Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.