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

I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.

I don't know that I could really define love. I can't . . . again, it's like trying to define what this creative force is. It's beyond my ability to really define. If I can define it, then it's not it. We're right back to that thing again.

As Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao".