When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

It was a kiss from the past.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.