Part of the way that I work is to observe.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.