Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.