I meet a lot of characters in the islands, people who're running -- who're happier on a fishing boat than they are back home. When I first got down there,I don't know if I was running from a real bad heartbreak or running to something I thought would make me feel better. But since I've been spending time in the Caribbean, I've come to realize that I've got nothing to run from.
Clive Barker
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
