I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.

I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.