Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.

I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.