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

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.

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

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

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'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.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.