As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

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

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

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.