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.

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.

New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist feels local and small. Social media feels now.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.