When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

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.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

Good things never last, bad things never die.