If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

I was a precocious reader.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.