I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

I promote my own self-hatred.

A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.

After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.' Because my first novel was rather dark. And I don't know, but something about what she said was true. 'Yes, why don't I?' Maybe I was afraid to be funny in the writing. But since then, seven books later, almost everything I've done has a comedic edge to it.

I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise.

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.