I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.