I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.