I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

I'm going to quit writing.

My father was very big on marriage.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.