The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.