As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.