“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

I've always been entranced with theater.

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.