It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.