As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'

There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.

I've never really been interested in recreational drug use.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.