I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.

I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. That's the real obsession. All those stories.

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.

I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.