I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.