I think people on antidepressants often lose sexual feelings. I don't mean that I think sex is only about sadness; it is obviously about joy and vitality and birth as well.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

People tend to be scared of what they can't see.

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.