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

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

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

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.

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.