I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

How did you find me here? If I was blind, I would see you. Stay with me. Forever. That's the whole point. I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.