The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall'.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.