Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.