I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good evidence regularly for having that faith in self-either with quality goods or with, at least, "good efforts." Working hard will do when inspiration is not forthcoming.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think some of those life experiences influenced me in terms of the main character of The Flamethrowers. But for the parts where the community of artists are speaking above her level of participation, that probably came more out of my experience of being in New York in the '90s as an adult.