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.

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.