A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.