I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.