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

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.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

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.

Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

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