There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.