I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.