I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.