I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.