The Police And I Have A Deal.

Poetry Teaches Us Music, Metaphor, Condensation And Specificity.

I Don't Ever Know Where I'm Going. Because One Of The Wonderful Things About Writing, Which Is Different Than Working In Programming, You Don't Need To Know. You Could Just Write And Discover Where You're Going. And It's A Great Deal Of Fun.

A Lot Of People... Kind Of Make Heroes That Are Separate From Us, People Who Are, You Know, Like... John Wayne And Errol Flynn And, You Know, Denzel Washington... People Who Are Different, Who Are Larger Than Life.

I Believe That A Writer Has To Tell What They Think Is The Truth In A Human Experience. The Truth Of The Human Experience Cannot Escape The Political.

Readers No Longer Need Novelists To Tell Us What It's Like To Cross The World On A Ship Or Fight A War. In The Twenty-first Century, We Get That Information In Other Ways. The Thing That's Still A Mystery To Us Is The Human Heart. What We Want Is To Understand People, What They're Doing, And Why They're Doing It.