I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.

Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on the art; but it's so hard to do anything in life, trapped as we are in our bodies, that is purely selfless for others... somehow the self is always involved.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.