I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

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.

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

One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.