To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

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.

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

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

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