For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

I don't want to die without a few scars.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.