It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.