I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.