Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.