My fear is naked, I'm naked and fearless, And my fear is naked...

I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs.

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

Change is hard, but change is good.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.