Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

Political elections are not life and death.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.