A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.