With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome..

Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do I respect myself?” A corollary to this….

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is..

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out..

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant..

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts..

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon..

I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like….

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex comm….

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could..

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake..