I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are kind of at the sharp end of capitalism one way or another. Mainly because they buy everything. In a practical sense, women buy most things. They're always comparing - to friends, to famous people, to other people. An obsessive act of comparison.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.