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I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

Don't you dare alter your inner freak.

Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.