The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

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

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

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.

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.