I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides. So, all this to say, I don't have a favorite ride. I don't go on rides. Well, that's not true. A few years ago I had a beautiful, romantic moment on the Ferris wheel at Coney Island, known as the Wonder Wheel, and so I guess that's my favorite ride, though even that, to be frank, terrified me.

There's no shortage of material in life.

I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.