I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.