I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.