I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit around the campfire and listen to his ghost stories. It's been very much a part of my makeup.

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the bullshit of our lives, and we make it into something that has a harmonious shape and sound.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

There is no fifth destination.

I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.