I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

The past was so past it hurt.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.