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.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

[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 prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am." Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.