I never thought of this becoming a book. I never dreamed. I was always just writing them for fun.

A thought comes . . . it's a true feeling, a funny feeling. And I get to develop it. [Writing] is more fun than performing, because I get to color with words.

There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.

It just looked to me that it was fun to be out there. We're pushing the ball around and making the extra pass and that's leading to open shots. We're going in the right direction.

It was a lot of fun and really different from anything around here and that's what I liked about it. I like the other things just a little bit more and the soccer is just a bonus. Being in Europe is the main part of the trip.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.