I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

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

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much of literature is about accountability. The moral issues in most novels are about people becoming responsible for their own behaviour. One of the forces against being responsible for your own behaviour is the force of the past, in the way that the past tries to form you.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.