We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.