I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.

I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.

Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how I lived my life, what I constructed my movement around, how I dealt with the tangible.