I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

We have to believe, as creators - just like a doctor doing heart surgery has to believe that he can save that person's life. You have to believe that your pursuit is not just a noble pursuit, but a necessary and inborn pursuit to uncover something.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)