I write with as much objectivity as I can.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

If you can write it, I can be it.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.