The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

I think that distance is good for some people for certain projects. I mean this is sort of a dynamic question. Some projects require more distance than others, some don't require it at all. Sometimes you need it and sometimes you don't.

Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world to enter. What's unique about a linked collection is that it can deliver both sets of narrative pleasures - the novel's long immersion into character-world and the story anthology's energetic (and mortal) brevity - the linked collection is unique in its ability to be both abrupt and longitudinal simultaneously.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.