There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

I certainly want to portray the importance of friendship. I had noticed in movies and TV shows that friends often treated one another terribly, and my friends, the few I have, are never cruel to me or unkind, so I wanted to convey that.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.