“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

When you are a child, you often stare too closely at the wrong thing. I remember the first time I was taken to Yankee Stadium. Someone had spilled something sweet earlier in the day and the ground was covered with ants. I spent the whole game staring at the ants, and that was more fascinating than the game.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.