A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.