People in Germany are very, very responsive to the readings.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

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.

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

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