Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

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