You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing about art, I had met some artists in L.A. They said, "Why don't you try living out here?" So I traded apartments with the painter Delia Brown. That was in 2003. I loved it. I still love living there.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

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

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.

I'm releasing myself from the responsibility of claiming to know when something is good and when it isn't.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.