We're animals. We're violent.

Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.

I became a set designer for opera.

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.