People tend to be scared of what they can't see.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

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

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.