I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.