I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought about fiction as a craft and an art form. I feel like I know a lot about it, and can trust my instincts.