The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

My suspicion is that this is an unavoidable human dilemma, that people will always want to avoid pain, to avoid those who are in pain, and so will be vulnerable to anyone or anything that seems to promise permanent avoidance.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

I think people on antidepressants often lose sexual feelings. I don't mean that I think sex is only about sadness; it is obviously about joy and vitality and birth as well.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.