I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

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.

Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.