I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

I'm not in the service business.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.