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

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may go to - is just friends or lovers with me: they also know something of my writing and this distorts their take on me.

I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

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