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

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.