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

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

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

The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables around, rework words and sentences - I revise for the pleasure and satisfaction of it, rather than out of a sense of duty.

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.