You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.