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

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

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

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

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.