I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

One is but a shade of the other.