I. . . allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.
I've loved all of my time here.
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.
That enemy warrior appears to be a formidable opponent. I relish the challenge.
Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.