I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.