With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

You can't be deep without a surface

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.