We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.