I’ve been devoting a lot of my time in the last five years to musical theater. It’s been my new passion. I’d love to write a musical comedy about Eleanor of Aquitaine and the troubadours. I’ve always thought that would make a wonderful musical, about a troubadour who falls in love with a beautiful queen.

Poetry is more important to me, and if I was forced to choose, it’d be poetry. I often write essays when I’m unable to write a poem, but I also enjoy writing essays, so I don’t suffer while writing them.

My original idea for this film was to make a documentary, because I loved the real people who told me their stories.

I used to love writing poems. Before I was with Coleen, just normal poems

I want to be able to do what I have always done which is to say, "I could do this no better. I could not make this better."

I sometimes I have the inability to see how I can do what I need to do at a high enough level for me to do it.

Oh yeah. In finishing this book, the last thing that I did, I read every story aloud and made some changes in every one of them.

I’d read Something Happened, by Joe Heller; I’d read “A Fan’s Notes,” by Frederick Exley; and I’d read The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy.

My half measures are really not good measures.

I guess you’ve just got to take each day at a time