The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.