When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.

People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejournal or Tumblr - excessive, sometimes automatic, sometimes enraged, emotional, while also quite intellectual - or if formal books will emerge at all, if that's not the point of these unmediated raw spaces. I'm excited by the possibility.

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.