Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.