People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.

When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.

I think we validate our lives through our actions.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.