I think what can be most shameful or embarrassing is when our bodies broadcast a secret we'd prefer no one to know. This is why I hate rashes, in par….

Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with….

No matter what you wear, not everyone is going to understand what you're saying..

It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have wr….

The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to me of an American cultural parado….

We're not saints, any of us. Maybe somebody is, but I don't know those people. But we all know people who behave very smugly and are very egotistical….

I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for….

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture..

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possibl….

I go through life now reminding myself to remember something, and I do this while that something is happening. I'll be experiencing a moment and I'll….

You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt..

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and ….

Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so it’s ….

We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rat….

I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. Bu….

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable..

As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring..

Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it's coming at me and I need to escape..

I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school ….

A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threaten….

I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it..