Comedy is a survival tactic. You can’t let the rage burn bright all the time or else you’ll burn up, too.

I like the idea of control, giving the tools back to readers, to see engaging in literature as a practice in interpretation of our own consciousness.

If I’m stuck for something to write about, I start describing a landscape I’ve visited recently—a forest, a stretch of coastline, an ocean, a mountainside—and then see if a story or plot line curls off it.

I keep trying to make every project as different from the previous one as possible, but I inevitably end up back on my bullshit, as the kids say.