The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive, for the writer.