The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

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