I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.