I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.