What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.