We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.