It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.