If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.