So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

I was always fascinated with the way that things pop on the Internet - the ways you build communities and create little stories and ideas that people play around with and send back to you.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.