I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.