The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.