I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.

[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.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.