Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.

I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live in, and how you think. I found it quite natural to think as a male because I actually think that as a female, one often thinks in the mind of a male in terms of eroticism. You think about what the other person feels. So it's not that hard to imagine being that person.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?