The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.