Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don't even think about it.

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.