The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

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'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

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.

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

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.