The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.