Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.