I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

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