I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.