Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that may or may not lie beyond the proscenium arch.

I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.

I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.