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.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

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

He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.

It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

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.