At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.