I am breathing deep. There's nothing quite like carrying a bag of goodies up to northern Maine ... and realizing that it could change a life.

I'm up here to see if there's anything I can do to help.

The hope is you can go back as a person from the area and explain how your career path led you to where you are now.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.