I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

There will always be an underground.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.