I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.