One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

One is but a shade of the other.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.