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.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

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.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.