“It remains difficult to imagine an American avant-garde outside the publisher’s influential network.”

“My attention tends to focus on the micro, on what’s right in front of my face—I let associations spiral out from there.”

“I’ve never been able to fully commit to the art world.”

“I do wonder whether it is such a good idea to make trauma the center of political demands.”

“A corporation is a way to disappear, to have impunity. It’s a legitimate kind of thuggery.”

“Trans women have never had an ongoing, well-documented, accessible, aesthetically varied, interracial culture.”

“Play is a form of thinking.”

“I’ve only lived my gay sex life in English.”

“I’ve been erased from the official history of Semiotext(e).”

“When you’re working in a journalistic framework, you’re going to be making the donuts and you may like the donuts but you did not design the donuts.”