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

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

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

I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

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.