I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.