I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

Im always terrified when Im writing.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.