I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

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

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.

Life is fundamentally up for grabs