Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

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.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

I don't want to die without any scars.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine