After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect from children or radishes: 'grow,' or there's something wrong with you. But writers are not radishes. If you look at what most writers actually do, it resembles a theme with variations more than it does the popular notion of growth.

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.