To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.