No one really wants to be laughed at.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

I'm really interested in the United States, what it means to be American - maybe because my father's an immigrant and my grandparents were immigrants, and also because I grew up so isolated from mainstream life, and it was such a total shock to leave the commune and, in a way, enter America for the first time when I was eleven - so I've always felt a little like an anthropologist - like, what is this strange place I find myself in, what are the rules here?

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.