I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.

There are times when things are clear in your head and your heart and everything comes all aligned and it's easy and it just feels good to do something. But most of the time it's not like that. Most of the time there's conflict between your head and your heart.

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.

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

Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.