The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.

I don't do things that are illegal.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.