I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.