At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'