I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.

How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.