For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

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.

From age 23 to 44 - I'm 45 now - I was always in need of money, and I was especially in need of it from 23 to about 34, and my great aunt would always give me money, a hundred bucks, every two months or so, and a lot of times that hundred bucks made a huge difference - I could eat or pay a small bill. It kept me going. She gave me money. It was very loving.

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

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.