I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.