There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

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

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 turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.