The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked.

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

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three or at the most four hours. No big mysteries, I just sit down and try to advance the cause a little bit every day.