Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

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

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most writers are not in a position to get the details right, because they don't hang around with artists. It's not something you can get the vague gist of. It's too specific.