All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.