I've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.