My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.