For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.