Acclaim is a distraction.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.