I'm kind of a distractible guy.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.