I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

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.

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.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.