I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.

I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window... Up to now, that hasn't been mine.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"