If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Sex is a good starting point for everything.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

I feel lucky. I do love it, mostly. At college I had it in my heart that I wanted to be a writer but I didn't want to tell anyone about it. Then I graduated and became a bartender in Philadelphia, writing during the day. I was the worst bartender in the world.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.