Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

Meditation is the brain's way to exercise.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.

I'm considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly.