We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.

I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.