Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

I think the world's big enough for all kinds of zombies. You can have yours and I can have mine. I think by going with slow zombies I maybe have been asserting my own kind of zombie snobbery, but I don't begrudge the youngsters their tackling, running, jumping zombies.

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

I'm trying to keep it fresh for me. I'm just trying to not bore myself. And if I can do a detective novel, and if I can do a horror novel, then why do it again? To keep the work challenging I have to keep moving.

When it comes to how the slaves treat each other: If you've been brutalized all your life - if you have seen your children sold or your mother beaten and raped and you have been tortured yourself - you are not going to be up for your best behaviour. Even in the 21st century, 100 people in the midst of terrible suffering are not going to be their best people.