I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called "professionalism" that requires them to alter their vocabulary, posture, eating habits, facial expressions--every detail all the way down to what they allow themselves to find funny.

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.