I Am Not A Ventriloquist.

Luck Can't Last A Lifetime Unless You Die Young.

And Out Of A Desire Essentially To Imitate What I Was Reading, I Began To Write, Like A Clever Monkey.

The Issue Of Torture, Connected To American Soldiers, Is Not Somewhere Most People Want To Linger. We May Not Want To Confront This Issue So Much In The U.s. Because Of How We Want To Think About Our Veterans. There's The Sense That We Want To Think Of Our Veterans As - If They're Damaged, Damaged By Something Glamorous, Like A Firefight.

And There Are People Who Want To Be Writers Because They Love To Write. And They Care.

Through Writing, Through That Process, They Realize That They Become More Intelligent, And More Honest And More Imaginative Than They Can Be In Any Other Part Of Their Life.