I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.