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 idiosyn….

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me..

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do..

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 do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world..

I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't en….

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's….

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker..

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything..

Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with ….

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives..

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 be….

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you h….

Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius..

There are times when things are clear in your head and your heart and everything comes all aligned and it's easy and it just feels good to do somethi….

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 t….

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achiev….

I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, ….

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them..

It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating..