To hell with facts! We need stories.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.