That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.