You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

I don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to acknowledge that the very nature of the materials that we're working with - the landscape of language - is very different than it was a few decades ago.

I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.

Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.