Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.