Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider's thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.
Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.
I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.
When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page.
That's been my routine for years and years... Up early before everybody else, before I get connected, before I get bugged, before I have obligations. Get the writing done first, then be the person I want to be in other ways after that.
My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you.
