The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.