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

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.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

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.

If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect... what are the alternatives?

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.