My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

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.

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

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

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

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.