I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.

We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.

One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

I've never worried about life's big questions.