It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

I've been writing forever, 20 years.

Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know.

For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters.

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.