If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As an author, you either love yer peeps or you don't. There's no such thing as a "masculine voice" or a "feminine voice". Men and women think and speak and act in, like, a zillion different ways. Also, as a gross generalization: women tend to live closer to their feelings than men.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.