I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.