When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.

I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.