I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.