People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.

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.

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

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

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.