I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort of buzz about something I did and sort of saying, "Get that guy that writes the crazy stuff in here."

I've always been entranced with theater.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them.

In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.