“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
“An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.”
“I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.”
“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”
“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”