When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.

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.

Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.

I've always been entranced with theater.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

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