I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

There is no fifth destination.

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.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me, and I don't want to live with any piece of work that I don't believe in completely. I have to believe completely in what I'm doing. It has grown organically out of my own experience.

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