Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.
And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.
I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.