[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.

The people I know who would support [Donald] Trump are keeping their mouths shut.

Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell, man, it was really worth living.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.