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

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

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.

In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.

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.

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