Give Me Romance. Flash. Give Me Denial.

You Have To Keep Recycling Yourself.

With The Novels, I Usually Start From Something In My Own Life That I Can't Resolve, So I Turn It Into A Metaphor And For Months Or Sometimes Years I'll Exhaust All Of My Emotional Reaction To This Issue By Making It Enormous On The Page.

Everyone Has Something Wrong. And For A While, Her Heart Just Sort Of Flat Lined.

Angel Says That Rich People Don't Like To Tolerate Much. Money Gives You Permission To Just Walk Away From Everything That Isn't Pretty And Perfect. You Can't Put Up With Anything Less Than Lovely. You Spend Your Life Running, Avoiding, Escaping.

You Have Endless Ways You Can Commit Suicide Without Dying Dying.