For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.