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A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

I like using traditional beliefs in my fantasies, even though I always end up warping them to suit my purpose: it somehow makes everything feel more 'solid' if it's got a long history behind it.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

I think, at the end of the day, it comes down to authenticity and creating what you love.