Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.