The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going to stay with the characters long enough to live your life with them. And you have different kinds of relationships with them.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.