I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence is probably as close as I'll get to having spirituality. I do see patterns in my life sometimes, and I am thrilled by what I see. I don't think I'm going to have any further shot at it after death, and I don't think there's anybody upstairs orchestrating it for me, but I do think it happens. If there are miracles in my life, they are rooted in the fact of coincidence.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

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.

If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there.

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