The Balls Do Not Make A Writer.

Because Sometimes You Have No Control Over Life And It Keeps You Far Away From Who You Love.

Even If You Tried To Extinguish Your Personality, What Is Left In The Story Will Reflect It, Perhaps By Its Negation. Our Lives Provide The Bricks From Which We Build These Cathedrals.

Chicago Has Very Few Public Spaces Where People Are Encouraged To Get Together. It's Partly To Prevent Riots, And Also To Segregate A City With A History Of Racial Segregation.

My Skin Was The Border Between The World And Me.

Sometimes I Don't Write At All. Someone Once Asked Me, "what Do You Do When You're Not Writing?" And I Said, "i Idle."