But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event to get people back to caring about what really matters.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.