I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.

More than sex. More than money. You know, life is not endless is it? Cash, cars, cocaine, and girls. It's more than that. And there is a spiritual dimension to people...we are driven to want something more.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.