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" My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. "

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" I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering. "

" If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think. "

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" I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad. "

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" I like most any place if I have Internet access. "

" I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. "

" I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. "

" If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it. "

" I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.' "

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" I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture. "

" The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it. "

" I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer. "

" I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those. "