You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.