The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.