I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.

I love learning. I tend to stop doing things once I get good at them, and to try something else I'm not as good at, leaving a bunch of fans going, "But he was really good at that. Why isn't he still doing it?"

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.