Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone

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.

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

It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure.

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

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

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.