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.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

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

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.

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.