We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.