The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story, and as a teacher I'm obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.