If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

I do think there's something when you have an unbroken day, and it feels like you and your attention can just be together like birds again and you can actually think and dream a little.

People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.