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

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.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

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.

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

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