It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

And the walls became the world all around.

I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business.