Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.