An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

The mole-rat raps too. It's kind of scary.

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter?

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about... the world I live in.