I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.