“Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.”

“All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.”

“Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.”

“It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind”