Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.