One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you’re in a bag and you can’t get out and somebody’s always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.

Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.

I don't know how to make the critics happy!

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.