Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it.

That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.

I like starting projects in January. That's the best time to start something. It's so inward.

We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.