I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to, really...because we're just not that different. So if you think, 'Oh my god, this is so embarrassing. I can't possibly talk about that,' and you write about it, the audience is gonna be like, 'that happened to me!

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

... [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.

I like high school and college writing textbooks and find them very helpful. Whenever I'm stuck and seem to have no ideas, I open one up and turn to the back. There I'll find questions like, "Have you had any experiences with an alcoholic or a sailor?"

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.