When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Whenever I try to map things out they inevitably change. Which doesn't mean I don't map them out — I just try to embrace the better ideas that come along as my fingers are flying around the keyboard mid-draft!

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.