It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas. The idea of the chorus is really important in Greek drama and I loved the idea of including that.

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.