I don't want this to feel like a funeral.

I went to her funeral and they had her and her baby in the casket together. That baby didn't have a chance to live or be loved.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens.

No, I never feel that it's getting away from me, ... I certainly am telling it in more detail, in which case, I think it's good that I'm telling it in more books than five. Trying to compress it into five would have made it not as readable or enjoyable.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.