I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

I've dedicated a lot of my life as a writer to understanding how to hear the divine voice, or the music of the spheres, or whatever it is that we do when we're making art, making something out of nothing. Figuring out how to do that is much more important than knowing how to execute a good line. I don't think about that anymore, I just write.

I don't think there's anything wrong with pity. Like if you saw a dog having just been hit by a car, you would pity that dog. But then what do you do? Do you leave it there to get run over by more cars, or do you step into traffic and hold up your hand? "Stop! An animal has been hit!" and carry the thing to safety?

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.