Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience.

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

A bullet in the right place can change the world.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.